Wicked Halo at Your source for all things wicked and awesome brings some nice scans of the August 2008 Harper’s Bazaar fashion layout featuring Lucy Liu titled “Fashion Olympics”

It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you’re dressed that counts.

Liu as the weightlifter “struggling” with the pair of $3200 Gucci bags is rather amusing*, but all of the shots are great. Still, to afford most of these looks, you’d need to win a few gold medals… and then hock ‘em!

* I was going to say ‘priceless’ but clearly… not

I can’t tell if this is an example of office culture evolving or devolving…

After interviewing a college student in June, Tory Johnson thought she had found the qualified and enthusiastic intern she craved for her small recruiting firm. Then she received the candidate’s thank-you note, laced with words like “hiya” and “thanx,” along with three exclamation points and a smiley-face emoticon.

“That email just ruined it for me,” says Ms. Johnson, president of New York-based Women For Hire Inc. “This looks like a text message.”

–WSJ: Thx for the IView!

I can understand the occasional online slips in e-mails as mentioned in the article. I get more than my fair share of U or R from time to time. But the applicant adding their interviewer as a friend on Facebook? Insanity.

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Gregory and I met for drinks tonight, starting off at Merkado (which will be closing soon and coming back as Commissary) and then heading over to Halo. Paul Wharton as seen on commercials for The CW was there, likely for a promotion they were doing that evening. I can easily say that my initial assessment of him from seeing his commercial, as restated as the title of this post, is most certainly confirmed.

Of course when in the gay-borhoods of DC, such a claim is hardly a rare one.

I’m sure I’m letting some part of my inner fanboy (also one of the new words in M-W’s Collegiate Dictionary) down. But putting this on a t-shirt, no matter how many colors its offered in, does not fall under my definition of “totally cool” as the google sponsored ad promised.

It kinda takes me back to high school, had a very nerdy friend (at times) David Dahl. He’d be considered a geek from the “old school” that prided himself on encyclopedic knowledge of a particular arena. In his case, Doctor Who. Not that new pretty Who these kids today watch, but the old school, every planet is the same rock quarry Who that was all we had in my day… and we liked it! Other highlights of being friends with him was that he once created loaded dice and tried to pass them off while playing D&D and at another point he stole my digital watch (which I still thought was a pretty neat idea) and after a brief disagreement, smashed it to bits… in full view of my other friends. The worst of this was that they let me look all over for it and wonder where I could have lost it for over a week before one of them told me what happened.

Ah, school days. Not that I’m in touch with any of those people anymore, not even through the many old classmate Facebook friend requests. Most of those come from people who I didn’t really hang out with all in high school, so it makes me wonder why they’d want to connect now.

This wasn’t the winning entry in Project Rooftop’s Superman: Man of Style contest, but it’s my favorite by Kyle Latino. Love the aviator jacket and scarf on a flying hero. Also fun is this entry by Charles R. Rouse-Rodriguez. Superman isn’t exactly a technology/science hero, but his details are flawless, “Why does Superman need a jetpack if he can fly? — Because it’s badass, that’s why!” There are some fun steampunk and silly Superman designs as well. The posts at Project Rooftop aren’t constant, but I always love them.

At the office today I’ve realized that “I’m not here to make friends,” is a good mantra and it’s suiting me well. I’m not mean or nasty, just present. I do my tasks, eat my lunch, surf a little and head home. My good co-worker friends are either in the office very infrequently, or don’t sit near enough to really socialize (which is a good thing since we’re here to work) and that’s fine. I can socialize in my off-hours, which is something else I need to work on, but one thing at a time.

This morning it also really hit me that I really miss league bowling. I left my last league out of support for a friend that said he’d find us another league to bowl in. That never happened and I haven’t really seen that friend in ages anyway, so I wonder if I should look for one that has in-DC carpools available. Why can’t any of the bowling chains find a good spot in DC to build a real alley. To quote an entitled gentrifier, “We really need” a bowling alley!